"The Braves trailed the Mets 16-13 with two on and two out in the bottom of the 19th, six hours and 51 minutes after the game's rain-delayed start. Rick Camp, the pitcher who had hit his first career home run in the 18th on a two-out, 0-2 pitch to tie the game, came to the plate. The 7,000 or so fans left from a July 4 Fireworks Night crowd of 44,947 in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium started to chant: 'We want Camp!' Camp was not amused. 'If this team needs me to hit a home run to win a game, it's in trouble,' he said. He was right. At 3:55 a.m., E.D.T., Friday, July 5, Ron Darling, pitching in relief for the first time since he was a freshman at Yale, struck out Camp. It was the longest game of the season both in hours and innings, and, as far as anyone knows, it was the latest a major league game has ever ended. 'The strangest game I've ever seen,' said the Mets' Keith Hernandez, who hit for the cycle." - Sportswriter Henry Hecht in Sports Illustrated (July 15, 1985 | Volume 63, Issue 3, 'Inside Pitch', Page 64)